Tag: defense
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Summarizing Emails With Gemini? Beware Prompt Injection Risk
Attackers Can Trick Gemini Into Displaying Deceptive Messages, Researchers Warn. Attackers can hide malicious instructions inside emails to trick Google’s Gemini into delivering falsified summaries with deceptive messages to end users, researchers warn. Google said it’s continuing to put multiple defenses in place to combat these types of prompt injection attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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New Grok-4 AI breached within 48 hours using ‘whispered’ jailbreaks
Safety systems cheated by contextual tricks: The attack exploits Grok 4’s contextual memory, echoing its own earlier statements back to it, and gradually guides it toward a goal without raising alarms. Combining Crescendo with Echo Chamber, the jailbreak technique that achieved over 90% success in hate speech and violence tests across top LLMs, strengthens the…
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Rethinking Defense in the Age of AI-Generated Malware
Attackers are using public models and automation tools to generate malware that is unique to every campaign. It doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen before. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/rethinking-defense-in-the-age-of-ai-generated-malware/
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APJ Ransomware Demands Drop 50%, Yet 54% Firms Pay Hackers
Experts Say MDR Services and Proactive Defense Can Break the Payment Cycle APJ organizations face a ransomware paradox: demands dropped 50% to $500,000, yet 54% paid the threat actors. The new Sophos report shows why firms continue paining, how successful negotiations work and what proactive defenses can stop attacks before encryption begins First seen on…
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8 tough trade-offs every CISO must navigate
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, cyber, cybersecurity, ddos, defense, detection, framework, group, healthcare, incident response, jobs, malicious, mfa, regulation, resilience, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. Weighing security investments when the budget forces choices: Closely related to the trade-off around risk is what CISOs must navigate when it comes to security investments.”For most CISOs, when they have to make tough choices, 99% of the time it’s due to budget constraints that force them to weight risks versus rewards,” says John…
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Putting AI-assisted ‘vibe hacking’ to the test
Tags: access, ai, attack, chatgpt, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, exploit, hacking, least-privilege, LLM, network, open-source, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustUnderwhelming results: For each LLM test, the researchers repeated each task prompt five times to account for variability in responses. For exploit development tasks, models that failed the first task were not allowed to progress to the second, more complex one. The team tested 16 open-source models from Hugging Face that claimed to have been…
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GPUHammer: New RowHammer Attack Variant Degrades AI Models on NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA is urging customers to enable System-level Error Correction Codes (ECC) as a defense against a variant of a RowHammer attack demonstrated against its graphics processing units (GPUs).”Risk of successful exploitation from RowHammer attacks varies based on DRAM device, platform, design specification, and system settings,” the GPU maker said in an advisory released this week.Dubbed…
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Microsoft Broadens Zero Trust Training to Address Network and SecOps Domains
Zero Trust architectures are being adopted by enterprises globally to update their security postures in response to the fast changing cyberthreat landscape, where traditional perimeter-based defenses are becoming more and more insufficient. Zero Trust operates on the principle of >>never trust, always verify,
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Where policy meets profit: Navigating the new frontier of defense tech startups
In this Help Net Security interview, Thijs Povel, Managing Partner at Ventures.eu, discusses how the firm evaluates emerging technologies through the lens of defense and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/11/thijs-povel-ventures-eu-dual-use-tech/
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Financial firms are locking the front door but leaving the back open
Financial institutions are building stronger defenses against direct cyberattacks, but they may be overlooking a growing problem: their vendors. According to Black Kite’s new … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/11/financial-firms-third-party-cyber-risk/
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Survey: 52% of Firms Now Put CISO in Charge of OT Security
Fortinet Report Says OT Defenses Are Maturing, Aided by AI Tools. Fortinet’s 2025 OT cybersecurity report reveals a shift in risk ownership to the CISO’s office, with increasing maturity, AI-driven defense and rising regulatory pressure shaping how organizations defend operational technology environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/survey-52-firms-now-put-ciso-in-charge-ot-security-a-28918
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Know Your Enemy: Understanding Dark Market Dynamics
To help counter crime, today’s organizations require a cyber-defense strategy that incorporates the mindset of the cybercriminal. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/understanding-dark-market-dynamics
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Cybersecurity Operations and AI Carry Hidden Climate Costs
Crypto Defense, Data Centers, Monitoring Systems Strain Global Energy Use As security monitoring, crypto mining protection and data centers fuel cybersecurity’s energy demands, new regulations, such as Australia’s National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007, signal a global shift toward holding the industry accountable for its environmental impact. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Closing the Telecom Security Gap: Proactive AI is the Future
As cyberthreats grow more sophisticated, the telecom industry must evolve accordingly and transform its defense posture. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/closing-the-telecom-security-gap-proactive-ai-is-the-future/
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Closing the Telecom Security Gap: Proactive AI is the Future
As cyberthreats grow more sophisticated, the telecom industry must evolve accordingly and transform its defense posture. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/closing-the-telecom-security-gap-proactive-ai-is-the-future/
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Abusing Trust: Threat Actors Leverage Signed Drivers for Stealthy Windows Kernel Exploits
Cybercriminals continue to use kernel-level malware as a preferred weapon against Windows systems amid a terrifying increase in cyberthreats. Operating at ring 0 the highest privilege level in the operating system such malware grants attackers unparalleled access to disable security defenses, maintain persistence, and operate undetected. Despite Microsoft’s robust countermeasures like PatchGuard, Driver Signature Enforcement…
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NightEagle APT Unleashes Custom Malware and Zero-Days to Infiltrate Industrial Systems
The advanced attack campaigns of a top Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as >>NightEagle,
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Inside the ZIP Trap: How APT36 Targets BOSS Linux to Exfiltrate Critical Data
CYFIRMA has uncovered a highly sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign orchestrated by APT36, also known as Transparent Tribe, a Pakistan-based threat actor with a notorious history of targeting Indian defense and government sectors. This latest operation marks a significant shift in tactics, as APT36 adapts its arsenal to infiltrate Linux-based environments, specifically focusing on BOSS Linux, a…
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XWorm RAT Deploys New Stagers and Loaders to Bypass Defenses
The XWorm Remote Access Trojan (RAT), a longstanding favorite among cybercriminals, has recently showcased a significant evolution in its attack methodology, employing an array of sophisticated stagers and loaders to evade detection and infiltrate systems. Known for its comprehensive malicious capabilities including keylogging, remote desktop access, data exfiltration, and command execution XWorm has become a…
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Linux Boot Vulnerability Lets Attackers Bypass Secure Boot Protections
A newly highlighted vulnerability in the Linux boot process exposes a critical weakness in the security posture of many modern distributions. Despite widespread adoption of Secure Boot, full-disk encryption, and bootloader passwords, attackers can still bypass these defenses by exploiting the Initial RAM Filesystem (initramfs) debug shell”, a loophole often overlooked in hardening guides, as…
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TAG-140 Deploys DRAT V2 RAT, Targeting Indian Government, Defense, and Rail Sectors
A hacking group with ties other than Pakistan has been found targeting Indian government organizations with a modified variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called DRAT.The activity has been attributed by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group to a threat actor tracked as TAG-140, which it said overlaps with SideCopy, an adversarial collective assessed to be…
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NightEagle APT Exploits Microsoft Exchange Flaw to Target China’s Military and Tech Sectors
Tags: apt, china, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, flaw, government, microsoft, military, network, technology, threat, zero-dayCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit chain designed to target government, defense, and technology sectors in China.According to QiAnXin’s RedDrip Team, the threat actor has been active since 2023 and has…
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Chinese Hackers Exploited Ivanti Flaw in France
Hackers Targeted French Government Entities, ANSSI Said. A hacking campaign linked to Chinese threat actors chained zero-days in Ivanti server software to target French government, defense and media entities, the national cyber agency said. The hacker has similarities to a Chinese threat actor tracked as UNC5174. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/chinese-hackers-exploited-ivanti-flaw-in-france-a-28888
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LevelBlue bolsters cyber defense with Trustwave deal
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/levelblue-bolsters-cyber-defense-with-trustwave-deal
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Extensive data compromise purportedly impacts Russian defense contractor
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/extensive-data-compromise-purportedly-impacts-russian-defense-contractor
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Sixfold surge of ClickFix attacks threatens corporate defenses
Countermeasures: ClickFix attacks often bypass many security tools because the approach relies on user interaction. Training users to recognize suspicious prompts and avoid copying and running code from untrusted sources is a critical first step in defending against the growing threat.Tightening up technical controls such as endpoint protection, web filtering, and email security technologies to…
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Upwind CSO: Real-time data is the new defense
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/upwind-cso-real-time-data-is-the-new-defense
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A New Identity: In defense of the end user
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/analysis/a-new-identity-in-defense-of-the-end-user
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A sophisticated cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is probing a sophisticated cyberattack that was discovered and contained last week. On June 30, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was hit by a sophisticated and targeted cyberattack. The organization confirmed that the incident was detected and contained by its defense systems. >>Late last week, the…